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Student holds placard reading: "Tamils to be oppressed always?"
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Students and staff at the University of Jaffna on Friday joined calls for the immediate release of all Tamil political detainees by staging a demonstration outside the main gate.
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The demonstration, which included students, professors, lecturers and non-academic staff across all faculties, was held as over 200 Tamil political detainees in prisons across the island launched a hunger strike on Monday calling for their release.
Expressing solidarity with those detained, Tamils in Jaffna launched a series of token daily hunger strikes on Monday.
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